Attention immigrants: Quebec’s Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac does NOT want to accomodate you!

Posted on February 5, 2007 by nicknoorani

“According to the most recent Statistics Canada figures, there are precisely zero foreign-born residents in the town and zero visible minorities, neither of which has deterred Saint-Roch’s civic leaders from adopting a code of conduct for new arrivals.
The document, which was approved unanimously at a council meeting Friday night, mirrors a citizens’ code adopted by nearby Hérouxville, which solemnly forbids stoning women, the donning of burqas, and wearing Sikh ceremonial daggers in school.”
It will be interesting to see how this town deals with an ageing baby boomer population and slowing birth rates!

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